This happens when I click on notifications that inform me of new comments on articles and authors that I am following. It could be a false alarm but please investigate and advise. My email address is sam.sawyer@gmail.com.

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To provide some more transparency here. Avast & AVG (and possibly others) incorrectly identified a piece of our code as Malware. We have rectified this issue with them and you should no longer see this message. If you still see it, try closing your browser and re-opening Seeking Alpha.

After I posted about this problem of getting a virus warning from Avast Antivirus when using the SA website, It now seems to have stopped as I have been using the SA website for about the last two hours and I haven't gotten any more virus warnings so hopefully the problem has been solved.

Although when I did a virus scan in Windows using Avast Antivirus it didn't find anything, when I did a boot scan I found multiple instances of JS:Downloader-FHY[Trj] that had installed itself in my user appdata. So I wouldn't use SA website for awhile.

I am getting the same warning from Avast. Seems Seeking Alpha and Avast need to collaborate on this issue and get it fixed one way or the other. It seems Seeking Alpha owes the community an email that this issue is being experienced by some community members and that it is under investigation. Steve Rasher

Same issue this AM with Avast antivirus claiming threat detected: JS: downloader-Fhy[Trj}. Multiple scans show no virus on my computer. So far only having the problem opening articles and accessing my comments (in yahoo email). Not in inbox. I can go to SA site to read articles. If continues I need to turn off my daily emails so i do not have to delete daily. I can access my SA portfolio. No other websites on my computer have a problem. No other yahoo emails have th problem. Only problem is with SA.

To provide some more transparency here. Avast & AVG (and possibly others) incorrectly identified a piece of our code as Malware. We have rectified this issue with them and you should no longer see this message. If you still see it, try closing your browser and re-opening Seeking Alpha.